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Former Waterville cannabis business owner sentenced on federal drug charges
May 4, 2021Daniel Hall, 32, of Benton, had pled guilty in January to distribution of cocaine and marijuana, possession of marijuana with intent to distribute and possession of firearms by an unlawful user of controlled substances.
May 4, 2021
On the Record: Portland attorney-entrepreneur Krystal Williams is 'embedding equity'
Updated: May 3, 2021Every entrepreneur needs a community, says the founder of law and business advisory firm Providentia Group. Williams is working to create such a community for entrepreneurs who are Black, Indigenous and people of color.
Updated: May 3, 2021
Maine's largest law firm launches climate change practice group
Updated: April 23, 2021On Earth Day, Bernstein Shur announced the launch of a a 15-attorney multidisciplinary practice group to meet growing demand for expertise on climate-related law and regulation.
Updated: April 23, 2021
Mercy Hospital in Portland receives $250K grant toward campus consolidation
April 15, 2021A grant from the Lunder Foundation will provide a one-to-one match for the hospital's ongoing relocation to its Fore River Parkway campus. That project is expected to be complete later this year.
April 15, 2021EPA fines Dutch manufacturer for violations at former South Portland site
April 9, 2021The company, Quick Plug SA, has agreed to pay a penalty of $137,294 penalty to settle charges that it violated the Clean Air Act's chemical accident prevention rules. It stopped operating in Maine in December 2020.
April 9, 20216 Maine nonprofits receive inaugural grants from Racial Justice Fund
Updated: April 2, 2021Language training, voter engagement and support for incarcerated youth are among the projects in the works. A group of two dozen businesses and organizations launched the fund last year to combat racism in Maine.
Updated: April 2, 2021
How to protect trade secrets in Maine state government contracting
March 19, 2021Guest columnist Benjamin Piper, a partner at Preti Flaherty, writes that businesses that ignore state information-access laws could find proprietary information falling in the hands of their competitors.
March 19, 2021
A call to action: After businesses backed change, the question became, ‘What’s next?’
Updated: March 8, 2021While many companies tend to be skittish about taking stands on politics and world events, the deaths of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor were somehow different.
Updated: March 8, 2021
Ask ACE: How to control your appearances at conferences and meetings
Updated: April 29, 2022A contributor from the Association for Consulting Expertise suggests ways for a reader to makes sure a presentation or other original works remain original and aren't used by others without permission.
Updated: April 29, 2022
CMP corridor opponents score a win in second referendum attempt
February 23, 2021Work on the $950 million electricity transmission line project is already underway, but the referendum could put its future in the hands of Maine voters on Nov. 2.
February 23, 2021
Statue of Augusta chief justice who presided on segregation ruling will be moved
February 17, 2021Augusta native Melville Fuller was chief justice for, and voted in favor of, the Plessy v. Ferguson ruling, which validated racial segregation; the Kennebec County Commissioners voted to move a statue of him from its prominent spot at the Kennebec
February 17, 2021
Maine evictions are down, but tenants are falling farther behind, study shows
February 9, 2021As rent relief passed by Congress in December languishes with the U.S. Treasury Department, Maine's landlords are feeling the squeeze from an increase in unpaid rent. Evictions, however, are down, the new Maine Coalition for Affordable Housing study
February 9, 2021
Portland chamber appeals Superior Court decision on city's hazard wage
February 5, 2021The court ruled that the hazard wage of time-and-a-half doesn't take effect until 2022, when the rest of the new minimum wage ordinance does, but the Portland Regional Chamber of Commerce and five business owners argue the wage itself is not
February 5, 2021Mainers lost $6M to scams last year, as cases of fraud skyrocketed nationwide
February 5, 2021Identity theft was the most common type of scam reported in Maine and nationwide. Shady online shopping schemes were also common, driven by a surge during the early days of the pandemic.
February 5, 2021
On the Record: Sue Roche, head of Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project, looks beyond barriers
Updated: February 8, 2021After starting 20 years ago as its first staff attorney, she's now executive director of Maine’s only statewide immigration legal services organization. Despite the "increasingly unjust immigration system," she's also optimistic about the future.
Updated: February 8, 2021
Maine cities get low marks in cost-of-crime ranking
January 28, 2021A financial services ranking that measures costs of insurance, crime prevention and more, found Lewiston, Bangor and Portland to be way down the list of "safest cities" in the U.S. between 30,000 and 100,000 people.
January 28, 2021
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